[Bug 474980] Review Request: ovm - Open Verification Methodology : IEEE 1800 SystemVerilog standard

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--- Comment #17 from manuel wolfshant <wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro>  2009-01-28 19:54:40 EDT ---
Unfortunately I cannot attend FESCo's IRC meetings due to overlapping with
personal matters, but I must stand on Chitlesh's side here (ref #14 )) and
support him.

I for one would have loved to use a rpm for OVM at the time that I deployed the
software in the company I work for (see #3). And no, except for a few minor
tools, the game around real EDA has no open-source players, all big boys use
products from one of the three major players in the market. Stalling even the
few available open source packages because in this moment there is no free tool
to use them is just an administrative block and with no support in any of the
guidelines I know of.

Note that this is the exact opposite case of games with free engines but
encumbered game data (which was downloaded at install time from links outside
our repos): this time we have free content but no free engine to use it with.
Pushing the content _might_ speed up the engine and harm no one; on the
contrary we would once again be the leader of the movement. No content at all
will definitely not help anyone.  It's like saying "Look, we have free oranges
! Take as many as you want !" but you reply "No, I will not eat your oranges
unless someone provides a free knife for peeling them, too !" Or in a geeky
speak, "Here, have some free beer !" "No, thank you, I cannot accept it, I have
no free bottle opener!"


And for what it's worth: 10 days ago I had the opportunity to attend a meeting
with a manager working for one of the top 3 EDA tools manufacturers mentioned
above. It just happened that his next meeting scheduled during that week was
with the other players of the OVM game, in view of releasing OVM 2.1. In other
words, there is a real incentive over this project.

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